Dear all, we would like to inform you about our 11th conference "Prisoners of Dissent: Locked Up For Exposing Crimes", which will take place on May 12, 2017 in Berlin at Grüner Salon of Volksbühne.
The next event of the Disruption Network Lab will celebrate the upcoming freedom of Chelsea Manning and launch the new book by CIA anti-torture whistleblower John Kiriakou: "Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison", to be released May 3, 2017 (published by Rare Bird Books). Invited speakers are John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA); Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE); Annegret Falter (Chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE); Magnus Ag (Senior Programm Officer, Freemuse, DK/DE); Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK). During the event, whistleblowers and truth-tellers persecuted for blowing the whistle, critical thinkers and activists meet to discuss countermeasures to detention and repression. More info are here: http://www.disruptionlab.org/prisoners-of-dissent The event is funded by the Reva & David Logan Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and the Open Society Initiative for Europe, part of Open Society Foundations. In cooperation with the Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V. and the Chelsea Manning Initiative Berlin. In collaboration with: Wau Holland Stiftung, The Artist Protection Fund (APF), Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Resistance Study Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Media partners: ExBerliner; Furtherfield. The event is in English. I hope to see many of you there! This time it is possible to buy tickets in advance at the Grüner Salon's website (seats are limited): https://gruener-salon.tickets.de/de/events/9224-_PRISONERS_OF_DISSENT_Locked_Up_For_Exposing_Crimes All the best, Tatiana -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz PGP: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre